A male daddy longlegs may spend days guarding a cluster of eggs. He cleans them and drives away threats.1 A new study says this type of parental care arose many times through evolution.2 A report from the Linnean Society of London describes the research as helping explain the “origins of fatherhood.”3 Yet the study did not observe fatherhood coming into existence. Instead, it documented creatures... More...
Could an asteroid impact really spark life? A recent AGU Advances paper says early asteroid impacts might have cracked Earth’s crust and made large hot-water systems where life could have begun.1 But the main problem remains: the study gives a possible opportunity for chemistry to happen, but it doesn’t show how dead chemicals made the coded systems needed for life.
The paper simply suggests large im... More...
Imagine an intersection where the red stop sign suddenly means, “Right turn only.” Most drivers wouldn’t reach their destinations efficiently or safely if their traffic signs changed meaning. Yet inside one tiny pond organism, something similar is happening—and the system still operates.
Conventional scientists recently studied a microscopic ciliate called Oligohymenophorea sp. PL0344 and found that... More...
Paleontologists recently rediscovered the largest known set of vertebrae from the giant fossil shark Otodus megalodon, popularized by The Meg movies as a hungry, gigantic man-eating version of the great white shark.1,2 These fossils were lost until recently, where they were found in one of the collections at the Natural History Museum of Denmark. The substantial size of the vertebrae and their associated growth band... More...
The prestigious journal Science has published evidence that a planet orbiting a red dwarf star has an atmosphere.1,2 This extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, is located 48 light-years from Earth and has been given the designation LHS 1140b, because it is the first exoplanet discovered around the star LHS 1140 (the designation “a” is reserved for the exoplanet’s host star). Biblical creationists should be exc... More...
Over 60 years ago, conventional scientists taught that Neanderthals were slouching, subhuman brutes—just another evolutionary link bridging the gap between animals and people. But recent research calls such a claim into question once again.
According to evolutionary theory, Neanderthals lived 34,000 to 400,000 years ago, but creationists would say they lived only about 4,000 years ago, shortly after the Flood (early Ice Age... More...
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According to evolutionary theory, fish went through a variety of forms until they evolved into the fish we see swimming today. Recently, what conventional scientists would ordinarily consider as a primitive fish was discovered in a fossil deposit in Cleveland.1 But the uniqueness of the fish has left them scratching their heads about its origins and its actual place in history.
Dunkleosteus terrelli was an armor... More...